Mavs' Dirk Nowitzki: 'We’d love to have Deron Williams run the show here'

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Okay. Deron Williams chose to stay in Brooklyn. His mistake. At the time, here was our pitch to get him back to Dallas ... a sometimes tongue-in-cheek look at reasons Williams should have considered bolting the New York-New Jersey area and coming back to the Lone Star State.

Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki spoke with KTCK-AM's Hardline on Wednesday, here are some of the highlights:

On NBA free agency:

“I’m anxious. We’d love to get D-Will (Deron Williams) in here. That’s no
secret. If you look at the league now, if you look at those top teams, they all
have two or three playmakers you can hand the ball to and they do their thing.
We just need to get better. I think we have some question marks going into the
summer. We signed Rick (Carlisle) for four
years so we got that out of the way. Now, it’s time to get some players in here
and get better. I always said we’re not happy losing in the first round. We
feel like we need to compete every year at the highest. We’ll see what happens.”

On if he knows Deron
Williams:

“I know him. I obviously competed with him in the All-Star
game. That’s really the only time you get to spend a little time off the court with
somebody. When he played in Utah,
he was in the West so we were in same locker room a little bit. He’s a good
dude. He’s a competitor. He’s one of the one of the best point guards in this
league. He’s athletic. He can shoot. He can get to the basket. He can pass. He’s
a great all-around weapon. We’d love to have him run the show here. We’ll see
what he decides. I hope we have a good shot. He’s from here. His mom lives
here. He likes it here. He loves golf, and we have great golf courses. We have
a great organization, great fans, and a great owner that makes stuff happen all
the time. I really think we have as good a shot as Brooklyn
has.”

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